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Corona Devo 3309

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The other morning, I had the idea that it would be nice to surprise my husband with an apple fritter from the grocery store bakery.  He loves apple fritters!  Let all that you do be done with love.  ~I Corinthians 16:14 And so I walked in the store around 7:15 AM, on a mission for an apple fritter...or so I thought. As I entered, I passed an older man who was exiting the store, and I recognized him as someone I had met and chatted with in my driveway at our last couple garage sales over the years.  I couldn't recall his name, but I remembered his story--he was a full time care-giver for his wife who had dementia. As we passed, I met his eyes and offered up a cheery "hello".  He didn't have any cheer, but he returned the greeting as we walked our opposite directions. But when I pulled my head out of the doughnut case with a fritter in-hand, there he was again , in front of me in the aisle, with his back to me.  I felt a nudge in my heart to go , and so I d...

Corona Devo 3308

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If we refuse to deal with something unpleasant will it: A. Go away or  B. Not go away and possibly (probably) fester, and become worse. I think we all know the answer to this question, because we have all been guilty of not  dealing with difficult things from time to time.   I had a fresh reminder to deal with life's unpleasantries (instead of putting them off) yesterday. We have a camper.  We don't utilize it as much as we should...but I do really enjoy being at the camper.  Over the past couple years, I have known that we had an issue with a little bit of water leaking into the storage component of the camper.  It's never been a lot of water, but from time to time when I would unlock the storage area, it would be moist and possibly even damp. What do you do about that? I did nothing. I ignored the issue. And I became freshly aware of it whenever we would go to the camper and I would open that storage door and see or feel some water.  The leaking...